Hi all, Got all sorts of old Sega stuff here, but theres a few items i'm not 100% sure what they are. Can any of you guys help? Possible proto / custom cart, has quick release chips (note no flash used to help protect possible data) Possible proto devkit or simillar? I THINK these belong the Sega stuff, but not 100% sure, any help would be great, two pretty big ISA cards. Ive got some other bits and pieces aswell, but lets see how we get on with these first. Thanks all. :thumbsup:
EPROM sockets on a Genesis cart for testing builds. The device with the ribbon cable looks like it might be a cart emulator with what looks to me like a SCSI connection that would go to one of the two ISA cards. Might just be a SCSI connector for all I know. The other board is an ISA sound card with what also looks like an internal SCSI connection for a CD-ROM and some headers I'm not familiar with. Probably went with it in the same dev PC.
except that thing with glue all are part from the same system, the thing with cables is some sort of emulator, i doubt that wolud be for genesis/MD, llooks more a 32x o SCD development something has so much hardware for a simple genesis, the scsi-ish card is the board that communicates with the thing with wires, it's not scsi, is a pcb full of logic gates (looks like) with some ram (buffer maybe), an last but not least, is the soundcard-ish board, which really is a media compresor, really power thing for the age, even has mpeg encoding capability, another thing that makes me think that was not for a simple genesis.
I dont think its a soundcard. It has VGA output and what looks like S-Video. Looks like its a complete system on a board? bit like the board in the Mega PC
A second glance shows that you're right, that at the very least looks like a VGA connector with what looked like S-Video but it is 6 pins and not 4 pins. Could be a lot of things but S-Video isn't ruled out just because of the additional pins. The plastic cap is concealing optical output with two 3.5mm connectors. For some reason my brain interpreted the D-SUB connector as an old game port. Not high enough of a resolution to make out the text on the ICs. The C-CUBE chip is likely to do with video compression/decompression. The board also bears the name "Video Logic" and a cursory Google search shows that they did use C-CUBE chips for MPEG boards. Look vaguely familiar? Apparently the connectors on the board are for expansion daughterboards. With high resolution photos dead on of the PCB I'm sure I can figure out what they are.
I have only seen an S-video connector maybe a handful of times in my life. Hence not knowing This is a pic of the mega pc - which is a megadrive (or genesis) on a ISA card: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MegaPC_ISAcard.jpg http://gamerlimit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/p4160159-568x351.jpg
The cart in epoxy -- There's more to it than the two ROMs.. Doubtful it's for testing code. Try running it? The board on the Zax manual -- ROM emulator with SCSI interface, 16M of SRAM. The VideoLogic board is probably for teleconferencing hence the high DSP and oscillator count, certainly unrelated to MD dev. S-video wouldn't be out of the question since webcams wouldn't exist for another couple years.
I can't really tell but it almost looks like there are plenty of unpopulated DIP sockets with two populated ZIF EPROM sockets. Whatever the epoxy is covering is beyond me. That DB-9 connector coming away from the board does interest me.
32x development kit hey come on guys this is a naked 32x development kit and it is like the second one i have seen, it is very rare here are some pictures of one with the casing still attached :thumbsup: job done
It could possibly be a prototype CartDev or some kind of early one, I guess. That's a SCSI card and yes, the Videologic is probably an MPEG card or similar (although Videologic did work with Sega IIRC, it looks like a bog standard device). Then you have at least two ZAX manuals, but you know what they are ;-) What else is in the box? If you want to protect the data on the EPROMs, cover the damn windows with stickers!
